A short segment from a YouTube interview (Chris Collins’s "Books That Changed My Life: Robert Palleschi & The Accidental President Pt. 2") in which the hosts discuss the influence of Jocko Willink’s book "Extreme Ownership" and the broader idea of accepting responsibility in decision-making—contrasting life-and-death stakes with everyday consequences and the ability to recover from mistakes.
You don't have to have this amazing pedigree, you know, you don't have to have a Ivy League education to succeed. And everyone can make their own success. You just got to be willing to make tough decisions and stand behind those decisions. In his case, he made life and death decisions. I don't do that. So it's like, why should I, you know, why should I take some of this stuff so seriously?
I got that when I read Jocko's Extreme Ownership. He's talking about accepting responsibility, and you're like, well, if he doesn't, people die. If I don't, we try again.
Yeah, exactly, exactly.
Dying.
That didn't work. And then you can laugh about it.
